Heavy North West Pointing Vine Leaf refers to an ornamental leaf-shaped Unicode symbol concept that has been discussed in the same historical space as proposed emoji candidates and decorative dingbat characters. It was not adopted as a standard, officially supported emoji in the way that common emoji such as 🍃 Leaf Fluttering in Wind or 🍂 Fallen Leaf were. Instead, it belongs more to the tradition of directional ornamental symbols, compatibility glyphs, and decorative font elements that were considered during Unicode and emoji-expansion discussions, especially around the era when many older pictographic symbols were being evaluated for broader use.
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This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
